yes, you can use pool directories from DVD.
> I would like to have a local apt source on my network for Lenny i386. I've
> done some playing with apt-mirror and am ready to start. Obviously the
> initial setup requires a substantial download so I was wondering is it
> possible to use the conten
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:10:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 07/15/2008 02:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> The new Dr. Who is just all *wrong*.
>
> How so?
>
>> If Tom Baker were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave.
>>
>
> LOL
>
> (Followups should go to debian-curiosa[at]lists.debian.org)
Th
On 07/15/2008 02:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
The new Dr. Who is just all *wrong*.
How so?
If Tom Baker were dead, he'd
be spinning in his grave.
LOL
(Followups should go to debian-curiosa[at]lists.debian.org)
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On 07/15/08 14:33, Wackojacko wrote:
> andy wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW - your sig: you have "New New York", so unless it is an updated
>> version of NYC, I suspect it might be a typo?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
> OR a subtle admission that he is a Dr Who fan!!
>
> New
> andy wrote:
>
> >
> > BTW - your sig: you have "New New York", so unless it is an updated
> > version of NYC, I suspect it might be a typo?
> >
> > Andy
> >
>
> OR a subtle admission that he is a Dr Who fan!!
>
> New New York is the name of New York in Parallel Earth I think!
>
> HTH
>
> Wac
andy wrote:
BTW - your sig: you have "New New York", so unless it is an updated
version of NYC, I suspect it might be a typo?
Andy
OR a subtle admission that he is a Dr Who fan!!
New New York is the name of New York in Parallel Earth I think!
HTH
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On 07/14/08 14:32, andy wrote:
[snip]
I don't mind installing more packages than what I had thought I needed:
I am quite happy to believe that apt knows more than I do about what is
best for my machine!!
I was just concerned t
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:15:45, andy wrote:
Hi
I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new set
of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my nVidia
driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the 2-6-25 in
order
Mumia W.. wrote:
On 07/14/2008 02:15 PM, andy wrote:
Hi
I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new
set of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my
nVidia driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the
2-6-25 in order to get GDM to w
On 07/14/2008 02:15 PM, andy wrote:
Hi
I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new set
of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my nVidia
driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the 2-6-25 in
order to get GDM to work.
[...]
This
On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:15:45, andy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new set
> of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my nVidia
> driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the 2-6-25 in
> order to get GDM to wor
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On 07/14/08 14:32, andy wrote:
[snip]
>
> I don't mind installing more packages than what I had thought I needed:
> I am quite happy to believe that apt knows more than I do about what is
> best for my machine!!
>
> I was just concerned that with my
>I don't mind installing more packages than what I had thought I needed:
>I am quite happy to believe that apt knows more than I do about what is
>best for my machine!!
>
>I was just concerned that with my sources.list opened up to a Sid
>repository temporarily for the purposes of this operation
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
What is the correct syntax to ensure that when I am wanting to install
the nVidia driver from Sid I limit it to *only* the package(s) I am
seeking rather than everything else that apt wants me to install? I've
spent the last 1/2 hour or Googling this and I can't find an
>What is the correct syntax to ensure that when I am wanting to install
>the nVidia driver from Sid I limit it to *only* the package(s) I am
>seeking rather than everything else that apt wants me to install? I've
>spent the last 1/2 hour or Googling this and I can't find an answer.
>Perhaps my
2008/1/24, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/1/24, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hello Paul,
> >
> > On 2008-01-23 23:30 +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> >
> > > I did the following steps:
> > >
> > > sudo aptitude update
> > > mount /media/usb0
> > > apt-zip-list -m /media/usb0 -a dist-up
2008/1/24, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On 2008-01-23 23:30 +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
>
> > I did the following steps:
> >
> > sudo aptitude update
> > mount /media/usb0
> > apt-zip-list -m /media/usb0 -a dist-upgrade
> >
> > mount /media/usb0
> > try to run in the usb0/
> >
Hello Paul,
On 2008-01-23 23:30 +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> I did the following steps:
>
> sudo aptitude update
> mount /media/usb0
> apt-zip-list -m /media/usb0 -a dist-upgrade
>
> mount /media/usb0
> try to run in the usb0/
>
> ./fetch-script-wget-debian-asztal
> but get error message:
> bash:
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:46:02 + keltezéssel Csányi Pál azt írta:
> Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:30:07 +0100 keltezéssel Paul Csanyi azt írta:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am using apt-zip to upgrade my old laptop from Etch testing
>> (when I installed on tjis laptop Debian Etch, then Etch was in
>> testing state)
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:30:07 +0100 keltezéssel Paul Csanyi azt írta:
> Hello!
>
> I am using apt-zip to upgrade my old laptop from Etch testing
> (when I installed on tjis laptop Debian Etch, then Etch was in
> testing state) to Etch stable.
>
> I red the tutorial
> http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:55:58PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> My apt sources.list file is as follows:
>
> localhost:/home/mikef# more /etc/apt/sources.list
> #
[snip slew of CDs and DVDs]
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
>
>
> # Line commented out
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 16:55 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> My apt sources.list file is as follows:
> [...]
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
> # deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> # Line commented out by installer because it failed to veri
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:58:55 + (UTC)
Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:02:44 -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100
> > John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet?
> >>
Just an update about apt-listbugs. It still seems to behave the same
way, even when I'm running apt-get within an xterm (actually
gnome-terminal). Apt-get runs along as usual, then gets to this line:
Retrieving bug reports... Done
and seemingly hangs. It is instead waiting for me to respond
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a
good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran
the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I found out about apt-listbugs from this list -- thanks for that. But
> I'm not sure that I'm using it correctly and/or have it configured
> correctly.
>
> When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically
>
On 2006-04-24, Rick Reynolds penned:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>>It's probably just that your monitor's vertical positioning needs to
>>be changed.
>
> Hmm... Maybe. But this is the LCD laptop screen I'm referring to.
> I'm not aware of a way to adjust that (although there may be a way).
Does xv
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> >
> >
> >>When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically
> >>fills more than a screensworth while it downloads pa
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a
good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran
the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a
> good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran
> the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this alignment
> problem at
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically
fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see
apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- the question
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically
> fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see
> apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- the question that says
> "continue w
Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Aug 03 2005, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
>> I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the
>> netinst CD.
>
> Fine, that's what most people do.
>
>> Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst
>> CD once again and wait for all the pac
On Saturday 24 July 2004 06:15 am, David A. Cobb wrote:
> [With apology that this duplicates a mail to 'backports']
>
> I see in the SOURCES.LIST document that one can use the "file:"
> scheme URI to designate a source.
> I am in a position where I need to do just that. I cannot get my
> nVidia
>
Hi again,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031023 03:57]:
> Nick Hastings wrote:
> >* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
> >
> >
> >>I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> >>http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
> >>
> >>I found it whilst Googl
Nick Hastings wrote:
Hi,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
in a mailing list archive. Could
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:40, Joseph Jones wrote:
> I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
>
> I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
> in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I w
Hi,
* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]:
> I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository:
> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/
>
> I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned
> in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me
On Monday 15 April 2002 08:01 pm, Robert Tilley wrote:
> Yes, such tools exist separately ... and can all be downloaded individually
> and configured individually. I seek the creation of a defined set of
> applications with the appropriate options preset so as to render any Debian
> box the equiva
Am 12. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jamie Wood so:
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> archive on the computer that has all the deb files?
>
> I currently have a directory /usr/local/src/debs
On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:20, Jamie Wood wrote:
> > you have to make the directory structure (e.g.
> > dist/potato/whatever..)
>
> Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz
> file that seems implicit in the search? Is so how? If not thanks!
> I'll give it a try.
>
> Cheer
On 12 Jul 2001, at 12:03, Jamie Wood wrote:
> Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
> it...
>
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> archive on the co
you could look
at man dpkg
and in particular look
at dpkg -i
This will at least install the debs you have
loaded up
G
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jamie Wood wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:03:50 +0100 (BST)
> From: Jamie Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Us
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:03:50PM +0100, Jamie Wood wrote:
> Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
> it...
>
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> ar
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Cc:
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Using apt
>
> > you have to make the directory structure (e.g. dist/potato/whatever..)
> >
> Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz file
> that seems implici
Jamie Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> archive on the computer that has all the deb files?
Hmm, do you know of the "APT offline Howto"
(/usr/shar
> you have to make the directory structure (e.g. dist/potato/whatever..)
>
Hi - Thanks for your reply - but do I need to create a Packages.gz file
that seems implicit in the search? Is so how? If not thanks! I'll give it
a try.
Cheers
Jamie
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From: "Jamie Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Using apt
> Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
> it...
>
> Basically I can download packages for fr
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:37:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> but there's lots of overhead for ftp. (okay, i'm exaggerating;
> if you know exactly which file to ftp in advance, you can
> skip all the LS and CD, but there's still some extra finagling
> that HTTP doesn't need.)
Good point. I thin
Jonathan Gift wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:08:18PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> >
> > try
> > apt-setup
> > or if you don't have that,
> > apt-get install base-config
> > which provides it. it lets you select, first of all,
> > which method (http/ftp) to use.
> >
> > my sourc
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:08:18PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
>
> try
> apt-setup
> or if you don't have that,
> apt-get install base-config
> which provides it. it lets you select, first of all,
> which method (http/ftp) to use.
>
> my sources.list resembles this:
>
> deb htt
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:26:53AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> > > BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the
> > > http one and the ftp would be faster.
> >
> > there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how
> > http should be faster.
> >
> > to see
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:44:47PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> >
> > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> > anything
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
>
> If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> anything that you don't want coming down the pipe.
You can achieve the same by addi
> > BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the
> > http one and the ftp would be faster.
>
> there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how
> http should be faster.
>
> to see if it's true for you, munge your sources.list to use FTP,
> and do "apt-get
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:10:23AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> > I don't see anyone having replied yet, so
> >
> > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> > packages to be upgraded. You can then sa
From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have done precisely this.
That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right...
> However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know
> exactly how to duplicate that on other machines.
I'm guessing that I copy /var/state/a
Moore, Paul said:
> The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way?
Almost, but not quite. I share /var/cache/apt over NFS here and it works,
provided that I do an apt-get update on each machine. If you
From: Christian Surchi
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
>
> > 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine
> > 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines
> > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines.
>
> try apt-zip!
That seems to w
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
> 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine
> 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines
> 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines.
try apt-zip!
bye
Christian
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:45:40PM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a Zip
> disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set up
> apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with
> setting up t
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
> I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a
> Zip disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set
> up apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with
> setting up the apt configuration
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message?
>
> This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft
> email/web creation programs don't "Do the Righ
On 26 Jul, Brad wrote:
| On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote:
|
| > I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I?m not being very lucky.
|
| Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message?
I saw somewhere that this is caused by some forms
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message?
>
This has been discussed extensively in Slashdot. Evidently, Microsoft
email/web creation programs don't "Do the Right Thing (TM)" in
regards to apostrophes, and fail
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Tiago Alves Macambira wrote:
> I've been trying to install debian 2.1 but not I?m not being very lucky.
Just out of curiousity, what's up with the apostrophies in this message?
> Last time I tried, apt/dselect downloaded all the packages needed to
> continue with the install
Copy all of the .debs to /var/cache/apt/archives/. Don't make
any subdirectories there, just shove everything in that
directory. Then, configure dselect to use the APT method
(install the apt package from your archives directory
manually with "dpkg -i " if needed).
Configure APT to download direct
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 12:55:09AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
>
> I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade
> up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major
> upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but
> maybe it
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade
> up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major
> upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but
> maybe it is jus
tOn Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
: does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to
: download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors?
I just looked in
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.0/distribution/deb/hamm/binary-i386/
but found no
dsb3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
|
| >I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
| >of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
| >apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
| >Deb
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
> of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
> apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
> Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figur
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
>I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
>of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
>apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
>Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring
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